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And the 18th Georgia suffered 57.3% casualties that day, as they stood alongside the Texans, shooting down Yankee gunners until they ran out of ammunition and had to retire, unlike Gaines Mill, when they chased off the Union infantry and captured 14 artillery pieces. Hood praised them all then, as Wofford did in his after action report following Antietam. Stan